Page 67 of The Bad Boy Prince in Love
Chapter 34: Next of Kin
“Are you just goingto stare at that form, or are you going to fill it out?”Terry asked.
“I’ll do it, just shut up.”
Hallie took a deep breath and tried to focus on the paper.She didn’t know much about Luke, so how was she expected to know his work phone number or health insurance number, or who his next of kin was?
From everything Luke had told her, none of his family members were living nearby.His parents and his sister were in Sarkadia.Hallie had no idea how to get in touch with them.
She felt guilty, thinking that she had dragged him into this situation, where he ended up alone in a foreign country, injured, and away from his family.But after all, he was the one who decided to get on that horse in the first place.
Maybe if he had just stayed in the city, he would have been less tempted to perform these feats of derring-do...Hallie suddenly remembered there was one person who knew Luke and who could probably get in touch with his family.
“What’s this?”Terry asked at once as Hallie slid out the business card that was still in her wallet.
“The woman who was looking for Luke the night of the dance, she left me her card.I don’t know if I should—”
“Yes!Call her!”Terry’s eyes were aglow with curiosity.She would probably love to see some sort of scandal unfold if Miss Santer showed up.“Do it, do it, do it!”
“I don’t know.Luke may have been hiding from her for a good reason.”
“This is Luke we’re talking about,” Terry said.“We won’t know for sure until you call her!If you don’t call her, I will.”
Terry made a grab for the business card, but Hallie held it out of her reach.
She got up and walked down the hallway.Thankfully Terry didn’t follow.
The card that read J.D.Santer, and below in smaller letters, ‘I get results’, was both reassuring and intimidating.
There was a good chance that J.D.Santer would know how to contact Luke’s family.
Terry was probably right, Luke was only avoiding that woman for some silly reason.And even if it wasn’t silly, she felt she owed it to his family to at least try to let them know about his condition.
She dialed the number, hoping it would go straight to voicemail.But Santer’s serious voice said hello almost on the same ring.
“Hi, this is Hallie Mathews.We met at the dance when you came by looking for Luke.Well, he’s back in Austin, but he’s had a slight accident, and he’s in the hospital right now.I thought you should know.”
“Which hospital?”Santer asked promptly.
“Redfield.”
“I’m coming right over,” Santer said, and immediately hung up.
Hallie wandered slowly back to the administrator’s desk and handed in the form.
“I know you’ve been waiting a while,” said the woman, looking at her sympathetically, “We have quite a few patients in the ER today, but it shouldn’t be much longer.”
Hallie returned to where Terry was still sitting more or less patiently.
